Browsing Destination Area: Data and Decisions (D&D) by Title
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Sensitivity of Household Transmission to Household Contact Structure and Size
(PLOS, 2011-08-01)Objective: Study the influence of household contact structure on the spread of an influenza-like illness. Examine whether changes to in-home care giving arrangements can significantly affect the household transmission ... -
SIPsmartER delivered through rural, local health districts: adoption and implementation outcomes
(2019-09-18)Background SIPsmartER is a 6-month evidenced-based, multi-component behavioral intervention that targets sugar-sweetened beverages among adults. It consists of three in-person group classes, one teach-back call, and 11 ... -
Small Molecule Kaempferol Promotes Insulin Sensitivity and Preserved Pancreatic β-Cell Mass in Middle-Aged Obese Diabetic Mice
(Hindawi, 2015-05-07)Insulin resistance and a progressive decline in functional β-cell mass are hallmarks of developing type 2 diabetes (T2D). Thus, searching for natural, low-cost compounds to target these two defects could be a promising ... -
Spatio-Temporal Storytelling on Twitter
(Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, 2013-12-16), TR-13-06Social media, e.g.,Twitter, have provided us an unprecedented opportunity to observe events un-folding in real-time. The rapid pace at which situations play out on social media necessitates new tools for capturing and ... -
STRATEGY FOR A NATIONAL COMMUNITY LEARNING NETWORK: COMMUNITY LEARNING DATA DRIVEN DISCOVERY - Building Capacity for Evidence-Based Decision Making
(2016-12-19)The Social and Decision Analytics Laboratory (SDAL) of the Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech received a planning grant from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation (LJAF) to develop a strategy for a national community ... -
Stresses and Instability in Coastal Systems: Sustaining Prosperity, Increasing Diversity and Achieving Resilience
(Virginia Tech, 2017-05-15)More than half of the world’s human population lives within 40 miles of the sea. Coastal cities are the backbone of global finance, trade, manufacturing, and transportation. Millions of people worldwide travel to beaches ... -
Stuck in Time: Negative Income Shock Constricts the Temporal Window of Valuation Spanning the Future and the Past
(PLOS, 2016-09-15)Insufficient resources are associated with negative consequences including decreased valuation of future reinforcers. To determine if these effects result from scarcity, we examined the consequences of acute, abrupt changes ... -
Studies in Big Data Series: Internet of Things and Big Data Technologies for Next Generation Healthcare
(2017)The health care systems are rapidly adopting large amounts of data, driven by record keeping, compliance and regulatory requirements, and patient care. The advances in healthcare system will rapidly enlarge the size of the ... -
Supporting maintenance of sugar-sweetened beverage reduction using automated versus live telephone support: findings from a randomized control trial
(2018-10-04)Background Although reducing sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) intake is an important behavioral strategy to improve health, no known SSB-focused behavioral trial has examined maintenance of SSB behaviors ... -
Systems Integration of Biodefense Omics Data for Analysis of Pathogen-Host Interactions and Identification of Potential Targets
(Public Library of Science, 2009-09-25)The NIAID (National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases) Biodefense Proteomics program aims to identify targets for potential vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics for agents of concern in bioterrorism, including ... -
Text and Data Mining Forum
This panel discussion was part of Open Data Week 2017 at Virginia Tech. Panelists discussed opportunities and challenges related to text and data mining, with a focus on research purposes and information access. Panelists: ... -
The effectiveness of computerized order entry at reducing preventable adverse drug events and medication errors in hospital settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis reducing preventable adverse drug events and medication errors in hospital settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis
(BMC, 2014)Background: The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act subsidizes implementation by hospitals of electronic health records with computerized provider order entry (CPOE), which may reduce ... -
The molecular mechanism linking muscle fat accumulation to insulin resistance
(The Nutrition Society, 2004)Skeletal muscle insulin resistance is a co-morbidity of obesity and a risk factor for the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus. Insulin resistance is associated with the accumulation of intramyocellular lipids. ... -
The Theory of Reasoned Action as Parallel Constraint Satisfaction: Towards a Dynamic Computational Model of Health Behavior
(PLOS, 2013-05-03)The reasoned action approach, although ubiquitous in health behavior theory (e.g., Theory of Reasoned Action/Planned Behavior), does not adequately address two key dynamical aspects of health behavior: learning and the ... -
Therapeutic effects of adropin on glucose tolerance and substrate utilization in diet-induced obese mice with insulin resistance
(Elsevier, 2015-01-17)Objective: The peptide hormone adropin regulates fuel selection preferences in skeletal muscle under fed and fasted conditions. Here, we investigated whether adropin treatment can ameliorate the dysregulation of fuel ... -
Topic model-based mass spectrometric data analysis in cancer biomarker discovery studies
(BMC, 2016)Background: A fundamental challenge in quantitation of biomolecules for cancer biomarker discovery is owing to the heterogeneous nature of human biospecimens. Although this issue has been a subject of discussion in cancer ... -
Toward neurobehavioral metrics of social function: Examples from autism
(2012-10-12)Pearl Chiu, researcher at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, describes the use of behavioral economic games and functional magnetic resonance imaging in the exploration of social symptoms of autism and lists ... -
Towards Use And Reuse Driven Big Data Management
(2015-06-03)We propose a use and reuse driven big data management approach that fuses the data repository and data processing capabilities in a co-located, public cloud. It answers to the urgent data management needs from the growing ... -
Twitter Use During an Emergency Event: The Case of UT Austin Shooting
(2011-06-01)This poster presents one of our efforts developed in the context of Crisis, Tragedy, and Recovery Network (CTRnet) project. One of our derived works from this project is the use of social media by government to respond to ...
